The President of the Chamber of Commerce of Gatineau, Stéphane Bisson, intends to carefully monitor the budgetary measures that could be found in line with the shortcomings of the main work, the training of workers and the taxation of interested parties. affairs with the Quebec government.
It will also monitor potential measures linked to the tourist offer, the relaunch of the city center and the creation of wealth for the region of Outaouais. Everything in an optics where public finances have to be in good health, adds the same souffle.
« I understand that it is in an electoral year, but it must be prudent, because at a certain moment given, if we spend more than we receive, we must necessarily find ourselves in a slightly more difficult situation. I can talk about culture, I can talk about childcare, I can talk about social housing … There are creative needs in several areas. »
Any budgetary measure linked to housing that could appear in the budget would be carefully scrutinized by Logemen ‘occupiers. In a press release sent Tuesday, the organism affirme had of great attention
for this budget in order to help combat the housing crisis.
In an interview with Radio-Canada, the coordinator of the Logemen ‘Occupy, François Roy, stated that his organism wanted to see in this budget of massive investments in social and community housing, in parallel with the new affordable housing program
of Quebec, to instigate other organisms and groups that occupy housing.
For us, the priority should be given to the most affected households, therefore in competition, low and modest income households which are the first victims of the housing crisis
pursuit M. Roy.
Furthermore, in its press release, the organism states that the actors of the Community housing and several Municipalities of the Outaouais made part of their request, so [de] adequately fund the AccèsLogis program and the planning of a minimum of 5000 new units for the next year
.
Logemen ‘occupy a chain indicating that this new unit programming has to be multi-annual so that the development can be planned in the long term
.
« It’s only with such a commitment that it can respond to the needs of families, where there is a shortage of housing of higher size, or even those of low-income or modest income, who can not pay the faramineux rents are demanded by the large for-profit residences. »
The provincial budget for 2022-2023 of the Quebec Minister Éric Girard will be unveiled to the public on Tuesday afternoon.
With information from Fiona Collienne
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